Man enters wrong Foster City house, gets shot

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A 24-year-old South San Francisco man is in the intensive care unit after he allegedly tried entering the wrong Foster City house after a night of drinking and a visitor at the home mistook him for an intruder and shot him, police said.

Authorities believe the 24-year-old thought the house on the 600 block of Crane Avenue was his friend’s home when he went inside at about 4:20 a.m. Sunday.

A visitor at the house heard the man lurking outside and then enter the home. Capt. Jon Froomin said the visitor then fired two or three shots at the man with a gun that was not registered to him.

Froomin said he is unsure about how many bullets actually hit the man.

Froomin could not release his condition, but police have been unable to interview him. The friends he was drinking with that night told authorities that it was possible he had entered the wrong house by mistake.

Police arrested neither the shooter nor the man, but passed the information on to the district attorney’s office to make a charging decision.